Dr. John R. Balmes has studied the effects of wildland fire smoke in firefighters and is currently studying the effects of woodsmoke in women and children who live in homes where wood is used for cooking and heating in Guatemala.
Say goodbye to your fireplaces and barbecues everyone.
In other words, in the real world he does nothing at all.
Scientists Lend Expertise to Green Chemistry Initiative
Sep 4, 2007, Business Wire
About two dozen of the nation’s top scientists and engineers will join the state Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC) to build the California Green Chemistry Initiative - a new program to cut toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Vice Chair: John R. Balmes, M.D.
John Balmes is the Director of the Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. He is a pulmonary physician by training, Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and Chief of the Divisions of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. Balmes leads a group of investigators at UC Berkeley and UCLA to assist in developing a national program linking environmental hazards with health outcome data to track diseases that are potentially related to environmental exposures.
2004: “Dr. John Balmes is a volunteer with the American Lung Association of California, past President of the California Thoracic Society and Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. He lives in Berkeley.”
2005: “Dr. John Balmes, head of the Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health... Balmes, a specialist in lung and environmental diseases who teaches at both UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco’s medical school.”
2006: “Dr. John Balmes, a pulmonary critical care physician and professor of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley and UC San Francisco ... also a spokesman for the American Lung Association’s California chapter.”